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1 day ago · John Parillo on: Federalist 49 and 50. July 3, 2024 by John Parillo. James Madison: Public Domain. In the last papers 47 and 48, Madison argues for the separation of powers that the new constitution provides, the unlikeliness of tyranny due to the turnover designed into the system, and discusses the ultimate remedy of armed citizens correcting ...
1 day ago · The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...
5 days ago · Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) was the fourth (and longest-serving) secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1801-1814). Gallatin plowed a middle ground between Alexander Hamilton’s Federalist nationalism and Thomas Jefferson’s Anti-Federalist states’ rights philosophy.
4 days ago · About The Volokh Conspiracy. John Roberts: Federalist Revisionist and Judicial Supremacist. The Chief Justice retconned Federalist Nos. 37 and 78. Josh Blackman | 6.30.2024 3:28 PM. During...
1 day ago · The Federalist Party controlled the national government until 1801, when it was overwhelmed by the Democratic-Republican opposition led by President Thomas Jefferson. Federalist policies called for a national bank, tariffs, and good relations with Great Britain as expressed in the Jay Treaty negotiated in 1794. Hamilton developed the concept of ...
2 days ago · The most sustained pro-Federalist argument, written mainly by Hamilton and Madison (assisted by Jay) under the pseudonym Publius, appeared in the newspapers as The Federalist. These essays attacked the feebleness of the confederation and claimed that the new Constitution would have advantages for all sectors of society while threatening none.
2 days ago · The Founding Fathers of the United States, commonly referred to as the Founding Fathers, were a group of late-18th-century American revolutionary leaders who united the Thirteen Colonies, oversaw the War of Independence from Great Britain, established the United States of America, and crafted a framework of government for the new nation.
